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Sept. 3, 2010

Today’s issue of Health Business Daily is brought to you by AIS’s Health Reform Week.

Today's Featured Story

Many Large Employers Will Change Health Plans Despite Losing ‘Grandfather’ Status
Reprinted from AIS's HEALTH REFORM WEEK

Many large employers are planning to alter their existing health plans for the 2011 plan year, despite the fact that they risk forfeiting “grandfather” status under the health reform law. Regardless of what is going on with health reform, large employers are paying the tab for their employees’ health insurance and need to focus now on controlling costs, Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, said at a news briefing Aug. 18....Read Full Story

Quote of the Day

“Because it is not physicians who are most affected by the decision [of whether an inpatient admission is medically necessary], they have less incentive to be highly educated on the rules. We’re asking them to become experts in an area where they don’t have a financial stake, so hospitals are forced to cajole and persuade doctors into becoming interested in billing rules that don’t affect them directly.”

— Mitch Michelson, with Alston & Bird LLP, told AIS’s REPORT ON MEDICARE COMPLIANCE.

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Today's Datapoint

Just

2,400…people had applied for the 22 high-risk insurance pools administered by the government as of mid-August, of the estimated 4 million people eligible for coverage through a high-risk pool, according to HHS data.

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People on the Move

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) promoted Kathy Donneson to chief of the Office of Health Plan Administration. Donneson has served as the assistant chief in Health Policy and Program Development for more than seven years.…Advanced Clinical, a vendor of clinical research services, appointed Julie Heneghan vice president. Heneghan has been in the outsourcing and staffing solutions industry for more than 20 years.

Today's Featured Health Business Job Opening

Sterling Life Insurance Co.
Case Manager
Atlanta

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